There are no lightsabers in The Mandalorian and Grogu, a first for Star Wars films. There are also no Wilhelm screams in the movie, which is weird because I thought I heard snippets of it everywhere (even Mando’s blaster sounded a little Wilhelm-ish).
Deadly fire rips through boarding school in Kenya
The fire at the Utumishi Girls Academy started in the early hours of Thursday, killing at least 16, as the students were asleep in the dormitory block. More than 800 children were in the school at the time. Kenyan officials say the cause of the fire has not yet been establis...
🎬 The Big Lebowski
Have rewatched this after a looong while. And the first time not dubbed. Still so so good and so funny. Every scene is perfect. The cast and their performances, the dialogue… One of my favourite movies of all time.
👍 Recommended!
Next event: Deine Freunde on June 6, 2026, 17:00 at Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen.
Poorly Drawn Lines
• Reza
A Team
100 Iconic Moments From Sir David Attenborough
Let’s the keep the David Attenborough love going: this is a six-hour video featuring 100 of the most iconic moments from the famed naturalist’s work. I got this via Enrique, who rightly asserts that “There’s no such thing as too much David Attenborough.”
See also Three Hours of Unbelievable Moments From Nature, Narrated by David Attenborough.
Tags: David Attenborough · video
Consider the Sister : an interview with Amy Wallace....
Consider the Sister: an interview with Amy Wallace. “It was hard work being David Foster Wallace’s little sister. It still is. The job of preserving the memory of her brother as a complex, vibrant, often joyful person has fallen to her.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Researchers Publish Method to Surveil Web Page Visitors by Analyzing Their SSD Activity
Dan Goodin, reporting for Ars Technica:
The technique, laid out in a research paper, exploits a
side channel, a form of leak resulting from physical
manifestations such as electromagnetic emanations, data caches, or
the time required to complete a task. By measuring the
...
I, Sisyphus, Am Ninety-Five Percent of the Way There ....
I, Sisyphus, Am Ninety-Five Percent of the Way There. “Honestly, folks, we are so, so close. The summit is largely visible. It is nearly visible. There is a concept of visibility at play here that is impossible to ignore.”
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
A Leonora Carrington Biopic Traces the Surrealist Icon’s Life and Work
"Don't you think it's dangerous to blur the distinction between abstraction and reality?"
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A Leonora Carrington Biopic Traces the Surrealist Icon’s Life and Work appeared first on Colossal.
Longreads
• Olivia Potts
The Grate Cheese Robbery
US and Iran exchange fire
The US has launched more strikes against Iran, claiming to hit drones and a military site in Bandar Abbas. Tehran says it's fired at ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, including an American oil tanker with its radar system turned off. Also: Matthew Perry's former as...
sqlite AGENTS.md
sqlite AGENTS.md
SQLite gained an AGENTS.md file five days ago - but it's not intended for their own development, it's presumably aimed at people who are pointing agents at the SQLite codebase. It includes:
SQLite does not accept pull requests without prior agreement and/or...
Tigran Hamasyan demonstrates modes #piano #pianomusic #shorts 
Make Way for Beavers
A Tube station in West London used to have a flooding problem. Instead of opting for an expensive reworking of the landscape via reservoir & levee, local officials reintroduced a family of beavers into the area.
The beavers are part of an unlikely effort to bring bac...
Time Machine Conversation
American Wealth, Sliced Up
Using the Federal Reserve’s Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989 data, Ryan Thorpe imagines a pizza party with 100 guests and 100 slices of pizza as a stand-in for the United States:
We’re having a pizza party with 100 guests! Let’s divvy up the slices...
As part of the Ocean Census project, “scientists...
As part of the Ocean Census project, “scientists have discovered 1,121 marine species in a single year”. Discoveries include “a new species of deep-sea ghost shark, a symbiotic bristle worm…as well as corals, crabs, shrimps, sea urchins, and anemones”.
Features | The Verge
• Victoria Song
Roids were all the rage at the Enhanced Games
In Las Vegas, the blazing sun beats down on a makeshift Olympic-length pool. Cody Miller stands on the starting block of lane one. His arms are raised in victory. MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" thumps over the loudspeakers as he rips off his swimming cap, throwing it to the ground. Miller lets out a […]
How To Get A MASSIVE Drum Sound in 9 Minutes
In this episode Eric Valentine stops by the studio to demonstrate how he gets such a massive drum sound.
Gear List:
All drums recorded with H2 Audio Helios 0011 Mic Pres
Drum Kit:
14" x 22" Gretsch Broadkaster Bass Drum
6.5" x 14" Ludwig Black Beauty Snare
10" x 14" 3-Ply ...
Caught In Joy: Music for Flow, Rest, and Reset
The moment I clicked through to the Caught In Joy YouTube channel, I knew I was going to love it. The description:
Over 80 albums designed to focus, flow and reset. Instrumental electronic music for you brain to wander.
And from the website:
Caught In Joy (Karol Pokojo...